More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 15, sentence 18
So I looked over the edge of the grave, and what do you think I saw?"
Who acts: I, you · What happens: look, think, see · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 looked | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | over | over | ADP | _ | 6 edge | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 edge | det |
| 6 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 grave | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 grave | det |
| 9 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 edge | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 think | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 think | cc |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 think | obj |
| 13 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 think | aux |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 think | nsubj |
| 15 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 looked | parataxis |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 saw | nsubj |
| 17 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 think | ccomp |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 15 think | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | I | over the edge of the grave | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent over edge=Theme | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | present · do-support | you | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent what=Attribute clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | see | past | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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